I have a Galaxy S6 and S6 edge, you have questions — ask me!

Is there mobeam support in the S6 or was it cut? One of the things I'm pretty fond of in my S4 is Beep n'Go, which uses some magic unicorn blood or something in the phone to work with old-style laser scanners.

I have no idea about any of that, tbh

Originally Posted by Wildo6882

Back to the Edge not working on different launchers. As far as you can tell, is this just the quick contacts? Do the rest of the Edge features work while the screen is off? I.e. the clock and quick notification check.

I think this really made up my mind on the regular S6.

Well look at that, switched back to TouchWiz launcher, then back to Google Now Launcher again, and now the edge gestures work with the GNL. Bug? I guess so. Great news though. I'll go back and edit my prior answers to reflect this.

In either case, I see no issues using the lock screen night clock or any of that with the third-party launcher.

Originally Posted by WillSucceed

Does the home button look crooked? I noticed when i got my note 4 that the home button looked crooked. Thats just my OCD kicking in lol.

Nope.

Originally Posted by WillSucceed

oh and does the screen over saturate in bright light? such as sunlight. I noticed this on my Note 4 and it actually is quite helpful on a sunny day.

Well look at that, switched back to TouchWiz launcher, then back to Google Now Launcher again, and now the edge gestures work with the GNL. Bug? I guess so. Great news though. I'll go back and edit my prior answers to reflect this.

In either case, I see no issues using the lock screen night clock or any of that with the third-party launcher.

Thanks for the info!! I was all set to get the S6 over the Edge now after reading that. I HATE losing functionality with different launchers. Part of the reason I want the Edge is for the possible additions that could open up through future development. Thanks again and thanks for this thread!

Samsung phones support multi-window and what not, do those features work only in touchwiz? What about in GNL?

Thanks again Andrew!

Multi Window is a system-level feature. Works with other launchers — the limitation is whether or not the apps you're using have the ability enabled on their end.

Originally Posted by flamingoezz

Is it likely that samsung will add functionality to the screen edge? can app developers add functionality as well, or is this normally locked down.

This isn't open like the Note Edge was. You get what Samsung's put there, which is minimal and arguably useful, with no further expansion.

Originally Posted by TPavey

I don't want to direct anyone to another site, but I did read at Anandtech, in their brief preview, that the screen goes to ~600 nits in auto mode (Auto Boost) but you can only get it to about half of that in manual brightness. Apparently colors/saturation are not as good at that brightness, but that is crazy readable in sunlight. I currently have an m7, but it sounds similar to what you describe on your note 4.

Yeah it's just like what you get on the note 4. Super high brightness, and it drops the saturation down a bit as a result. Makes it much easier to see in direct sunlight. Only works when your brightness is on "auto" though.

Originally Posted by kgh00007

Hey Andrew, does the double press home button action launch the camera when you're using a different launcher like google now launcher?

oh and does the screen over saturate in bright light? such as sunlight. I noticed this on my Note 4 and it actually is quite helpful on a sunny day.

I don't want to direct anyone to another site, but I did read at Anandtech, in their brief preview, that the screen goes to ~600 nits in auto mode (Auto Boost) but you can only get it to about half of that in manual brightness. Apparently colors/saturation are not as good at that brightness, but that is crazy readable in sunlight. I currently have an m7, but it sounds similar to what you describe on your note 4.

I have a subjective first impression question that you may or may not be able to answer. How do you feel this compares to the other new flagships like the M9 and Flex 2? ie if you were handling them side by side in the store, what do you think you'd get?

This sounds like the memory leak issue N5 users are experiencing is also in the latest phones as well....

I just looked at my m7 with 5.02 and it is only using 508 MB for system, much lower. That said, is it just possible that it keeps more cached since more is available on the s6? Are we sure it's an actual memory leak?